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\makeatletter{}\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}

We proposed an effective solution for stitching tables on the same 
site into a meaningful union table, as the first step towards addressing the challenge of 
synthesizing tables on the Web. Specifically, our solution identifies tables that are 
stitchable, infers necessary yet minimal set of hidden attributes from the context, 
unions the tables into a single table with proper attribute values for disambiguation,
and finally provides the context with reasonable labels. Our experiments over a corpus of real world 
tables demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed solution over various aspects of the 
stitching process. We believe table synthesis will enable users to explore the harvested 
structured data with more powerful capabilities.

In future work, we plan to design algorithms to improve the stitchable table identifier,
extract hidden attributes from other sources (e.g. URLs of the Web pages) and investigate
the relationship between the table content and induced hidden attributes.
